A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an ‘Anti-Meta Fedi Pact’, pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse.

I don’t know how big this will get or how effective it will be, but if you run a fediverse instance, you should take a look at this https://fedipact.online/

  • IncidentalIncidence@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’ll play devil’s advocate here – I hate Meta, but Meta apps supporting activitypub would be a huge benefit for adding users to the platform.

    Like other small social platforms, the fediverse has a fundamental choice to make between quantity and quality. The quality of Reddit took a nosedive in the last 5-6 years as the platform grew. I’m not saying it was always great in “the old days”, but recently all of the big subs were just page after page of the same memes, stupid arguments (“it’s called soccer! It’s called football!”) that have been had a million times, and the same jokes.

    So the question is – how much does the fediverse want to grow? The thing keeping me from deleting my Reddit account right now is some of the sports communities there, and things like a local urbanism group from my hometown.

    Having Meta apps support activitypub could help establish that kind of userbase. At the same time, the influx of users could drastically reduce the quality of the platform. It’s a balance that has to be struck by the community.

    The cool thing about the fediverse compared to other platforms is that the structure allows this kind of thing to be decided fairly democratically – each instance can “vote” by deciding whether to federate or not, and if we all agree we don’t want them, everyone can defederate. If we’re 50/50 they’ll federate with half of the community.

    • Eisenhowever@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Having meta into the fediverse is the easy way out. Meta is going to grow like a cancer in the fediverse, enticing weak minded instance owners with a large pool of users to sign a contract to allow meta to implement their ads or their i fluence somehow in order to make their profits.

      I dont see why youd want anything like that to take part when its going to be the same bullshit

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      Meta apps supporting activitypub would be a huge benefit for adding users to the platform.

      Just like how Meta apps supporting XMPP was great for XMPP.

      Oh wait.